I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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It was a plump face , unnaturally rosy, and sleep-creased like a small cushion.
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A balding man with a plump face , his eyes shifted back and forth from his interpreter to the judge.
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Her plump face was thinner, and lined down the cheeks.
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He was in his early forties with a receding hairline, a plump face and a small mouth.
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But his plump face and crazed eyes suggested he was merely a psychotic.
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Her pale, plump face was serene.
hand
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The endomorph is round and soft, with shortish limbs, and small, plump hands and feet.
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Now he held her, his plump hands with fingers like sausages trying to steady her.
man
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I looked towards the stone angel where the plump man had been standing, but there was no sign of him.
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A short, plump man with dark hair walked in behind her.
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So, eight years ago, the plump man had been honest, sober and industrious.
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It showed a large, plump man , already balding but with a pink, childlike face.
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Focusing on a plump man with dark hair at a bus-stop he decides the people are Latin.
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He was a plump man who looked as if he would burst if you sat on him.
woman
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Bessie was a fiery character, a large plump woman with a shock of ginger hair, freckles and green eyes.
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They had to be youngish, plump women .
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A plump woman in a white wool suit and dark glasses bought it and tried to pay for it by cheque.
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She was a plump woman in a knitted suit whose chief concern, she told Josie, was pastoral care.
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One was occupied by a plump woman in her forties, who was briskly sorting through a pile of letters.
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The fact is, Elizabeth Taylor is a plump woman who is exceptionally beautiful that way.
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She is simply the victim of the kind of prejudice which all plump women experience in their everyday lives, including me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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plump juicy strawberries
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a plump woman in her fifties
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Frieda's mother was a plump , cheerful woman, quick with a laugh.
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He's a little on the plump side, but nevertheless quite handsome.
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Paula had silver bracelets on her plump arms.
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Stevie is a plump healthy-looking child.
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The doctor's wife had a plump face and a small mouth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Isabel bounced once against the plump straw mattress, then made a frantic bid for freedom.
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Miss Withington was a small, plump young woman between Agnes and Prudence in age.
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She must have been in her sixties, plump , with a crown of dyed brown curls.
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The comforters on the beds were abnormally plump .
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The four plump man-apes were still there, and now they were doing extraordinary things.
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The good cut made his shoulders look their proper width and reduced his generally plump look.
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The stuffed dates looked like plump roaches.
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You're too short and too plump - though your skin's not that bad.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Add the chopped prunes, apricots, apples, raisins and broken walnuts and cook gently until the fruits plump up .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Boil the dried fruit until it plumps up in the cooking liquid.
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You can plump the bags down anywhere you like.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add oysters and saute until they just begin to plump , about 1 minute.
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Do you plump for a bottle with an attractive label or simply stick to a wine that is familiar?
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He'd have liked to plump for the Algarve but, he said wistfully, you do go over the £1,000.
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It could be the question, whether to plump for a great evolutionary jump or stay put in the icy brine.
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We could just plump for Aristotle's report, as the earliest and therefore most reliable.